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- Comment on How does streaming compare to "analog"? 4 hours ago:
I’d say just as you can run your own server cooler (turn it off when not needed), Netflix servers are going to wind down during low demand and run lower power. But while you’re picturing you last laptop as a server vs a data center, try to picture every household out there running their own “server” the same way. Some are watching, some aren’t. I think OP’s question is more appropriate, comparing streaming to broadcast rather than streaming vs local storage. Besides, how’d you get that data? You transported physical media or downloaded it from a server.
- Comment on 10 hours ago:
“Kinetic” with a hard “T” like posh Brit is saying it to the queen? Everyone I’ve ever heard speaking US English pronounces it with a rolled “t” like “kinedic” so the alternate pronunciation still reads like it’d have a “d” sound
- Comment on Larry Ellison overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person 1 day ago:
But like, you can’t just delete someone’s wealth, because they can’t just rebuild an empire from scratch. These self-made billionaires are so strapped for cash, charitably speaking, because they need the capital to fund future charitable investments. Don’t you want to get a trickle of charity more than once? That’s why they can only donate like 10mil a year. Also partly because humans are really bad at estimating the difference between 10mil and 400bil. It’s like a factor of 40. They’ll be drained of wealth after 40 years at 10mil a year.
Oh wait. Hold on. 40 years… 10 mil/year… So 400 million… If we froze their wealth of ~390bil, by the end of this scheme, they’d have… ~390,000,000,000- 400,000,000 =~389.6bil.
OK nevermind fuckem
- Comment on Larry Ellison overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person 1 day ago:
No, it’d take at least a 3rd heinously rich guy to wipe the 1.8tril USD student loan debt. Don’t be ridiculous, 2 can’t pull it off.
- Comment on Cinderella's Millennium Falcon 2 days ago:
Not yet, Disney doesn’t have those vampires
- Comment on The perfect use for spoons in the "bad spoon" drawer 4 days ago:
Uri Geller wants to know your location for copyright infringement. You and Pokémon Kadabra both
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 5 days ago:
Hopefully, it told you that’s not a sign of a worn clutch. Assuming no computer interference and purely mechanical effects, then that’s a sign the clutch is dragging. A worn clutch would provide more of an air gap with the pedal depressed than a fresh clutch. If you want to see a partial list of potential causes, see my reply to the other comment that replied to you.
Your questions are still not proof that LLMs are filling some void. If you think of a traditional encyclopedia, of course it’s not going to know what the colors of one manufacturer’s sandpapers mean. I’m sure that’s answered somehow on their website or wherever you came across the two colors in the same grit and format. Chances are, if one is more expensive and doesn’t have a defined difference in abrasive material, the pricier one is going to last longer by way of having stronger backing paper, better abrasive adhesive, and better resistance to clogging. Whether or not the price is necessary for your project is a different story. ChatGPT is reading the same info available to you. But if you don’t understand the facts presented on the package, then how can you trust the LLM to tokenize it correctly to you?
Similarly, a traditional encyclopedia isn’t going to have a direct answer to your clutch question, but, if it has thorough mechanical entries (with automotive specifics), you might be able to piece it together. You’d learn the “engine” spins in unison up to the flywheel, the flywheel is the mating surface for the clutch, the clutch pedal disengages the clutch from the flywheel, and that holding the pedal down for 5+ seconds should make the transmission input components spin down to a stop (even in neutral). You’re trusting the LLM here to have a proper understanding of those linked mechanical devices. It doesn’t. It’s aggregating internet sources, buzzfeed style, and presenting anything it finds in a corrupted stream of tokens. Again, if you’re not brought up to speed on how those components interact, then how do you know what it’s saying is correct?
Obviously, the rebuttal is how can you trust anyone’s answer if you’re not already knowledgeable? Peer review is great for forums/social sites/wikipedias in the way of people correcting other comments. But beyond that, for formal informational sites, vetting places as a source - a skill being actively eroded with Google or ChatGPT “giving” answers. Neither are actually answering your questions. They’re regurgitating things they found elsewhere. Remember, Google was happy to take reddit answers as fact and tell you elmers glue will hold cheese to pizza and cockroaches live in cocks. If you saw those answers with their high upvote count, you’d understand the nuance that reddit loves shitty sarcastic answers for entertainment value. LLMs don’t because they, literally, don’t understand anything. It’s up to you to figure out if you should trust an algorithm-promoted Facebook page called “car hacks and facts” filled with bullshit videos. It’s up to you to figure out if everythingcar. com is untrustworthy because it has vague, expansive wording and has more ad space than information.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 5 days ago:
It’s not. A worn clutch is losing its ability to connect the engine to the transmission. With the pedal depressed, the clutch should not be touching the engine [flywheel] at all. So a worn clutch would provide slightly more of an air gap between the engine and the transmission. So to answer OP’s question, assuming there’s no computer programming involved with the drop and it’s a purely mechanical effect, then the clutch is dragging. There’s many possibilities, including misadjusted clutch mechanisms (cable/plunger nut, pedal free play screw), worn clutch mechanisms (bent clutch fork, leaking fluid/worn cable sheath/stretched cable, broken pedal mount, bent levers), or a jam (extra carpet under the pedal, debris in transmission lever) to new several possibilities.
I had both a worn clutch and a dragging clutch in my Geo at different points. The only result of a worn clutch is having the engine rev up faster than the trucklet was accelerating, as if it was a loosey goose automatic. No shifting issues. When the cable was out of adjustment, it wasn’t disengaging properly. It happened while driving and made it very difficult to drive since I came to a stop. I had to ride the poor synchro to get it up in speed to, essentially, clutchless shift into 1st. 3 blocks later, I forced it in just in time to climb my driveway.
But, to a much less dramatic experience, often enough, the aftermarket floormat would slip under the pedal and just slightly limit the clutch pedal travel to an effect more like the parent comment’s experience. It go into gear with a little crunch and a little shudder and a little engine drop.
Side note, it’s normal for letting the clutch out in neutral and having the engine drop a little. If the clutch pedal is up, the engine will be driving multiple input components - they just won’t be further connected to the output components. It takes a little energy to spin those back up to 700rpm. They should spin down after a few seconds. If 5-10 seconds pass with the pedal depressed and the gears still resist then comply being engaged with the shifter, they aren’t slowing down. That’d be another symptom/diag point for OP to test for a dragging clutch. A caveat is that if there’s zero input and output speed on the transmission, the dogs may not be lined up and will still prevent engagement. It takes a few tries to confirm “sometimes won’t engage” vs “really will not engage”
- Comment on Humans can't consent to reading. 1 week ago:
Or how I check 3 paths in a video game that all lead me to the same place
- Comment on Humans can't consent to reading. 1 week ago:
Centuries of playtesting
- Comment on Humans can't consent to reading. 1 week ago:
I asked if I was the only one that have a damn about the rules
- Comment on Humans can't consent to reading. 1 week ago:
That’s why you’re perfect.
- Comment on Humans can't consent to reading. 1 week ago:
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
You said exactly what the parent comment said and ignored the secondary part of OP’s intent. But thanks?
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
The question isn’t just about upstarts, it’s asking how we got here. We can’t start Ovidia in a garage, but Nvidia did at one point. So where’d everyone else go? What partnerships and preferences put Nvidia on top?
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 weeks ago:
Asking questions is great. Testing ideas is fantastic. Discussion is healthy. Getting so combative and argumentative with repaonses to ideas you’re posing as the obvious solution that 8 billion people wandering the Earth now have missed? That’s nowhere near as constructive for the world is it will be for you, in an inverse manner, in a few years.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 weeks ago:
I can tell you that doctors will not trust the claims of anyone slurring their words. If they can’t identify the person and pull up their records, they’ll do their own diagnostics.
What problem are you trying to solve? In what instance have you experienced an actual doctor say they wish there was an acronym for everything? Frontotemporal dementia is 3 precise bits of data. Two bits tell you what type of dementia, one bit to tell the majority of doctors this isn’t their specialty and just “dementia” is sufficient. And, more importantly, is rooted in Latin - the common root of medical terminology. It’s pronunciation carries further across the world than writing.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, because what we need in medicine is more acronyms to occlude meaning.
- Comment on Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse 2 weeks ago:
So it is important to recognize that “nations” are constructs.
I’m so tired of state/country pride being touted as definitive cultural (and ethnic) traits from places that have straight fucking lines and swimmable rivers for borders.
- Comment on The lost generation is truly lost 3 weeks ago:
2 fast 2 millennial
- Comment on To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen Planning Roblox Documentary, It's Claimed 3 weeks ago:
Roblox as a platform? OK, whatever, new audience I guess. Have at it
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Oh no, I’ve misunderstood
- Comment on Standing desks are like gym memberships. Plenty of people (and offices) pay for them but never use them 4 weeks ago:
Because sitting takes less energy, standing muscles are underdeveloped, and constant back pain is just the 8th natural wonder
- Comment on capital letters are 99% useless 5 weeks ago:
There’s 26 excited letters to use for emphasis but you opted to be dry as Toast.
- Comment on capital letters are 99% useless 5 weeks ago:
You sound like my dad’s handwriting reads
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 1 month ago:
Too much corruption in RAM, need a power cycle
- Comment on Americans have been trained to hate foreigners by Fox News, owned by a foreigner. 1 month ago:
Or “I might be Irish, but at least I’m not an Italian” to not make yourself look better, but to make the others look worse
- Comment on Is there ettiquite for following people on Instagram? 1 month ago:
I came back to the top to write a leading question: is Instagram going to be the main social network used to communicate? That changes the purpose of following. If not, then here’s my take regarding content alone:
Do I care about their lives? I’ll follow back. Do I like their content? I’ll follow back. Do I not care about their lives and don’t like their content? I don’t follow back.
My interests have major overlap with some opposing ideologies and if they make it a part of their content, I’m not following them. If they post low effort bullshit about their outdoor alcohol without doing any proper photography technique, I don’t need to see that snapshot of their day unless they’re a core person I care about.
If you don’t follow back, they’re probably going to forget within a day. “Oh I don’t check it often”. You’re also allowed to unfollow people if you don’t like their content later. It’s not a big deal. If it’s a big deal to them now, they’ll either figure out it isn’t a big deal later or they’re always going to prioritize something I refuse to. Follow count should be natural but it will always feel like a competition and a measurement of success. Always has been, on every social platform.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 month ago:
Mutualism? The group wants some puritanical bullshit and knows a tactic to make other services comply
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 month ago:
Are you sure gun and violence culture is on the chopping block? In the American market?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In context, I suspect they meant to say some 30 year olds will be less mature, rather than saying look at a less mature age group, then go even lower
